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The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch
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It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.
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Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch
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The magnificent, completely forgotten, masterpiece by #hermannbroch The Death of Virgil. It was released to widespread critical acclaim as an example of modernism to rival Musil, Joyce or Wolff. This #penguinclassic sells for up to 2000 euros!

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Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch

"The boy was mistaken. What we seek is submerged and we should not seek it as it mocks us by its very undiscoverablity." ~ p 59

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